New Year's Eve Gunman Supect Arrested In Houston Small Arsenal Of Guns Found In Hotel Room

Police arrested the intoxicated individual for trespassing, according to The Houston Chronicle, and discovered a semi-automatic AR-15 rifle, handgun,
shotgun, and a lot of ammunition in his top-floor hotel room overlooking downtown Houston

I'm not very awake yet to talk more about this story but I found it important as is looks like someone was planning a NYE attack similar to what we
experienced in Las Vegas.

The hotel is the downtown Hyatt here in Houston

The downtown hotel had planned a New Year's Eve celebration that expected hundreds of people to attend a 50,000 balloon drop.

Police arrested the intoxicated individual for trespassing, according to The Houston Chronicle, and discovered a semi-automatic AR-15 rifle,
handgun, shotgun, and a lot of ammunition in his top-floor hotel room overlooking downtown Houston.

Maybe it's just me...But there is no friggin' way you're getting me to stand in a crowd, out in the open. I'm glad the cops got this guy before he
could cause any harm, but I've got a bad feeling he's not the only one who had this idea.

"This was not Las Vegas," said an official familiar with the case. "There was not an arsenal." Chief Art Acevedo took to Twitter to reinforce
that sentiment. "Situation from this morning at downtown hotel is contained," he wrote. "No specific threats."

After hours of investigating, police charged the man, identified as Russell Lawrence Ziemba, 49, with assaulting a peace officer and
trespassing.

Apparently, no charges are being made about him bringing the guns to the hotel as he legally owns all of them and this is Texas where we carry guns
just if we feel like it.

olice arrested the intoxicated individual for trespassing, according to The Houston Chronicle, and discovered a semi-automatic AR-15 rifle,
handgun, shotgun, and a lot of ammunition in his top-floor hotel room overlooking downtown Houston.

In the movies, these characters at least maintain a sense of sobriety so in order to function well enough (conceal the evidence) to complete the
"mission."
Guy takes them to his room does he?
Or the investigation led them to his room?

I'm still trying to figure out the part about him trespassing but having a room at the hotel.

Russell Lawrence Ziemba does have a record of being charged with DWI in the late '90's. Being a drunk doesn't sound like much of a reason to be a
mass killer anyway. Who knows what police will find in his vehicle.

FWI, according to Mylife he is a postman and Republican.
I know that is not much of a site for information on this case, but it's at least something to help figure out who this guy is. www.mylife.com...

Management and the officer asked Ziemba to return to his room on the 28th floor. Officials say Ziemba returned to his room but headed to the
lobby again and continued harassing guests. Hotel management asked the man to leave the hotel. Authorities say Ziemba refused to leave but was
gathering his belongings. That's when the officer noticed ammunition and several weapons. It's unclear at this time if the weapons were discovered
while Ziemba was packing or if they were in plain sight.

I've bolded a section about to show that he was being kicked out of the hotel, therefore the trespassing charge.

Investigators say there are no indications Ziemba had any intent to use the weapons. Because he was at the hotel, and the guns were apparently
in his truck, Ziemba brought them into his room for safekeeping.

So he brought the guns in just to keep them safe? In downtown Houston that makes sense to me.

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